Questions tagged [scrub]

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`scrub(1)`, but resumable from an offset

I need to scrub a couple of very large HDDs. However, I can't do that from a desktop. I need to do it on the move, from a laptop. A single pass of scrub(1) on a HDD would take more than a day, but there is no way I can leave my laptop stationary for…
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BTRFS scrub vs balance - which one to use for regular volume maintenance?

I understand the both scrubbing and balancing of a BRTFS volume is useful for maintaining its health. Which one is more useful though? If I cannot afford to run both types of checks regularly, should I prefer the one over the other?
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When should I scrub my BTRFS volumes?

Scrubbing a BTRFS volume seems to be an expensive operation. How often should I be running it on a moderately busy system? Dayly? Weekly? Monthly?
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BTRFS: scrub finds "super" errors - how to fix them?

I've recently had problems with a faulty power supply to a Raspberry PI system used as a media center. Before tracking it and replacing with a new power unit it seems it did some damages to an old disk (that could be troubled by itself) and to a not…
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Why does 'zfs scrub' write to disk every 5 seconds?

My NAS is running zfs and does a scrub now and then. When it runs it read all data (as expected), but it also writes a litte during the run (around 0.5%): Device rkB/s wkB/s %util sda 13628.80 69.60 58.04 sdb 13625.60 …
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